SANDHILLCRANE

Sandhill Crane

The Sandhill Crane is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird references habitat like that at the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Plains. This is the most important stopover area for the nominotypical subspecies, the Lesser Sandhill Crane, with up to 450,000 of these birds migrating through annually.

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sandhill crane

Noun

  1. A crane native to North America and parts of Siberia, Grus canadensis.


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